"If Kepler had been a mathematician of the twentieth century, he would have stopped his laborious observational inductions after noting his first law, and deduced the other two analytically."
— Johannes Kepler

January 1, 1970

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Edward Kasner, "Differential-Geometric Aspects of Dynamics," (1909) in The Princeton Colloquium: Lectures on Mathematics, Delivered September 15 to 17, 1909 (1913) Vol. 3, Part 1.